Marina Begun (Zelinsky)
Partner, Finance; Private Credit
Marina Begun has extensive experience in complex commercial lending and private credit transactions, including sponsor-backed acquisition financing, cash flow loans, asset-backed loans, special situations loans and fund financing. Ms. Begun also handles distressed debt facilities, bridge financings and DIP financings.
Bio
Ms. Begun advises private credit clients on a broad range of complex finance transactions.
Ms. Begun’s representations, including at a previous firm, include:
- a group of private credit lenders in connection with a debt financing facility, the proceeds of which were used to finance a private equity buyout of a website developer
- a private credit fund as lender in a senior secured facility to a sponsor-backed health and wellness enterprise
- a private credit fund as lead lender in a senior secured financing to a sponsor-backed management service organization supporting a vast network of oral surgery centers
- an alternative investment manager as lead lender in a first lien financing to a sponsor-backed company producing medical equipment
- a business development company in making a mezzanine loan to a company within the consumer services sector
- an alternative capital manager in a first-out last-out financing to a sponsor-backed company in the educational sector
- a private debt manager in connection with multiple direct, senior-secured financings to other private credit funds
- a group of second lien lenders in connection with a comprehensive debt restructuring of a sponsor-backed sustainable packaging company
- a group of private credit funds in connection with providing special situations financing to a manufacturer of plastics and latex binders
- a lender group in connection with debtor-in-possession financing to a provider of fiber internet and communication services
- a hedge fund as agent and lender in debtor-in-possession financing and first-lien and second-lien exit financing to a distributor of transmission and drivetrain products to the automotive aftermarket
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2008
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences, 2005
Admissions
- New York
Languages
- Russian
- English
Marina Begun (Zelinsky)
Partner, Finance; Private Credit
marina.begun@skadden.com